Article: 'Daily Voting News' For June 11, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org There has been a lot of banter back and forth between members of the Election Integrity community who are on both sides of whether presently filed legislation should be passed or dumped. Today's news finds four articles on HR-811 that discuss the issue in depth. We encourage everyone to read the four articles so they know what are the arguments. Today's articles are from Ellen Theisen and Pam Smith, both members of the EI community; Michael Collins, of the media; and Mark Ritchie, the Secretary of State of Minnesota. Tomorrow Ellen Theisen will follow her article on HR-811 with another article on its Senate companion bill, S-1487, which is much worse and will be hard for any civil rights organization to support. ...

NAtional: Rush Holt's HR 811 Does More Harm than Good A Leading Election Integrity Advocate Speaks Out Against 7 Serious Failures in the Latest Holt Election Reform Bill ... LINK

NAtional: Rep. Rush Holt's VCIA bill is fair, necessary and overdue LINK

NAtional: Hopes for the Rules Committee Hearing (on the FEC) this Week LINK

NAtional: Kucinich Says No to Holt Bill - His Alternative, "Paper" for President LINK

NAtional: Time Has Come for Congress to Help Fix Voting System LINK

NAtional: Rewriting the Election System, One State At A Time; Tough Going, But It's Going LINK

AZ: Pima County - RTA lawsuits are about integrity of elections LINK

GA: Georgia court rejects challenge to voter ID law LINK

GA: Ga. Court tosses voter ID challenge LINK

MO: Editorial - Appeal is a waste of federal manpower Dubious claims of vote fraud LINK

PA: Fayette County - Fayette's unused voting machines awaiting fate LINK

PA: Northampton County - Write-ins put balloting to test Northampton County has seen a rapid rise in random votes since new machines adopted. LINK

TX: Hidalgo County - Outgoing Texas secretary of state made local impact with voting changes LINK

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